Apparently I'm in the minority but I thought the CoD4 ending was pretty bad.
Player: la la la, saving 40mil lives, shooting people from a moving car, la la la...
Developer: This seems like a reasonable place to end the game.
Player: huh, why'd everything go blurry. Oh, I guess I'm close to death, and the normal "hide behind cover for health to regen" doesn't count for some reason.
Developer: OH WAIT, we haven't killed Big Bad Russian yet! The thing that the entire plot was about! Oh, there's not enough time to do this properly now, let's just have him walk towards the player pulling scowly faces. Oh, and make everything slow motion, 'cos that's more dramatic.
Player: Hold on, why can't I just shoot him?
Developers: Cause we say so. Just wait...
*Bad guys shoot Gaz*
Developers:... now you can shoot him.
3/4 shots later (adter what apparently counts as a "boss fight") the bad guy is dead and you're lifted into a helicopter. They pull the old "you saved the world but nobody knows" trope, fade to white, the end.
Developer: This seems like a reasonable place to end the game.
Player: huh, why'd everything go blurry. Oh, I guess I'm close to death, and the normal "hide behind cover for health to regen" doesn't count for some reason.
Developer: OH WAIT, we haven't killed Big Bad Russian yet! The thing that the entire plot was about! Oh, there's not enough time to do this properly now, let's just have him walk towards the player pulling scowly faces. Oh, and make everything slow motion, 'cos that's more dramatic.
Player: Hold on, why can't I just shoot him?
Developers: Cause we say so. Just wait...
*Bad guys shoot Gaz*
Developers:... now you can shoot him.
3/4 shots later (adter what apparently counts as a "boss fight") the bad guy is dead and you're lifted into a helicopter. They pull the old "you saved the world but nobody knows" trope, fade to white, the end.